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Last week I spoke at TechTarget's Modern Infrastructure Decisions conference in New York City. My topic was about the Consumerization of IT, specifically ten things you can do to start to address consumerization in your organization. One of my ten things...
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Brian Madden
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Are you looking for an independent overview of the Server Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI) solutions and curious about the different features- and functions each Desktop Virtualization vendor is offering!? Then this is the whitepaper you must definitely...
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Ruben Spruijt
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August 24, 2012
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You know IRC, right? The IRC. The one you used to access via FreeNet in 1990, Prodigy in 1992, and AOL (we all know you had it) in the 1995? As it turns out, people still use it regularly, and for good instead of evil. One such "good" use is CitrixIRC...
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Gabe Knuth
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July 11, 2011
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If you use both App-V and XenApp together, once you have deployed App-V virtual applications to your XenApp 4.5 and 5.0 Farm, you will want to publish the shortcuts to users. This can be a slow and tedious process for App-V virtual applications when using...
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Tim Mangan
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Back in the good old days, when Vista was just coming out, I produced a free tool called ATM. ATM poked around inside the kernel to figure out how your RAM was being used and produced a nice pretty graph (along with way too many numbers to understand...
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Tim Mangan
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August 18, 2009
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This week I am releasing a new white paper that covers using the App-V 4.5 client in "stand-alone" mode. This paper is an outgrowth of my interest in understanding the under-documented capabilities in the client. In particular, I look at how...
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Tim Mangan
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July 22, 2009
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Application compatibility (or “app compat”) is one of the most important issues when architecting, designing, or implementing a desktop or application virtualization solution. After all, if you have an application that’s not compatible with your delivery...
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Brian Madden
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June 09, 2009
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For at the past few years, I've talked about how I think that platform hypervisors are going to move towards the hardware in the future, leaving the current market players sitting not on their own hypervisors, but on a suite of tools to manage/extend...
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Gabe Knuth
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June 03, 2009
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While storage solutions and virtualization can often become a goal in themselves, in respect to availability, it’s not a simple task to design a datacenter availability solution. All aspects of the datacenter influence one another. To position the...
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Ruben Spruijt
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March 18, 2009
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Microsoft has made a few of announcements recently. Now that I'm back from the MVP Summit in Redmond I have time to summarize recent announcements surrounding Microsoft App-V. [Note: This has been edited for clarity and detail based upon additional...
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Tim Mangan
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March 05, 2009
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In April 2007, I released the first Application Virtualization Feature Compare Matrix, aka ‘The Matrix’. In December 2008, a new white paper is released. This document will provide information about the various application- and desktop delivery...
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Ruben Spruijt
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December 10, 2008
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What is Preferential Load Balancing? Preferential Load Balancing (PLB) is a new feature included in XenApp 5 (Platinum only) that uses administrator-configured levels of importance to assign more or less CPU cycles to users and/or applications. For instance...
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Gabe Knuth
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December 03, 2008
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Summary This article is a personal look at trying the Microsoft Hyper-V Server. It is not a formal "review", but more of a personal observation, in trying to use the product differently than perhaps Microsoft intended. In this article, a look...
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Tim Mangan
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November 30, 2008
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In our latest master level training class on Microsoft App-V 4.5 in Boston last week, Christopher Cawvey asked a question that lead us down an unexpected path; through it we may have discovered a new way to deploy virtual applications to terminal servers...
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Tim Mangan
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November 23, 2008
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Now that the early adopters have had their fun with XenApp 5, the path has been cleared for the wait-and-see crowd to get their hands a little dirty in the sandbox. Citrix has announced over 50 new features and enhancements, and we're going to take...
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November 17, 2008
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Tim Mangan is at the Citrix Summit this week. Citrix runs the Summit is yearly to update their partners on upcoming product changes. While this is an NDA event, preventing reporting on much of the details, there still is much to talk about this week.
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Tim Mangan
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October 26, 2008
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At last, Microsoft has announced a virtualization-friendly change to the license agreements for 41 server products. The changes will allow administrators to run software on more than one physical piece of hardware, which, in the world of VMotion, XenMotion...
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Gabe Knuth
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August 19, 2008
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2008 , presented by Michael Thomason. Session Description: As more users rely on VDI/Citrix/Terminal Services for application delivery, extremely fast login times have become more of a necessity. Not...
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Brian Madden
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June 18, 2008
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I had an opportunity to hear a pitch from a company called "DNSstuff" recently, which was interesting.
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Tim Mangan
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May 11, 2008
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Seeing Kevin Goodman's name in the Brian's article yesterday reminded me of a great session that he presented at BriForum in Amsterdam. In "Don't Terminate that App: Four Things to do Before Killing that Rogue Process," Kevin talks...
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Gabe Knuth
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April 08, 2008
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